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John Szwed, Series Editor
Lewis Porter, Founding Editor
A wide ranging jazz series providing ground-breaking, in-depth, and insightful studies of the lives and works of jazz musicians. Autobiography, biography, musicology, history, cultural studies, and other adventures in jazz welcome.
Lewis Porter is Professor of Music and director of the M.A. Program in Jazz History and Research at Rutgers University.
Editorial Board
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Frank Büchman-Møller, Head of the jazz archive at Carl Nielsen Academy of Music, and author of You Just Fight for Your Life: The Story of Lester Young (Praeger)
- Mark Burford, Teaching Fellow in Music at Columbia University, and Editor-in-Chief of Current Musicology
- Francis Davis, jazz critic for the Village Voice, and author of Jazz and Its Discontents and Like Young: Jazz, Pop, Youth, and Middle Age (Da Capo Press)
- David B. Demsey, Professor of Music, Coordinator of Jazz Studies, William Patterson University, and co-author of Alec Wilder: A Bio-Bibliography (Greenwood)
- Maurizio Franco, Editor of Musia Oggi, an Italian musicological magazine, and author of Django Reinhardt: dalla chitarra gitana al jazz (Edizioni Sinfonica Jazz)
- Andrew Homzy, Professor of Jazz Studies at Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, and founder of the Andrew Homzy Jazz Orchestra
- Travis Jackson, Assistant Professor of Musicology, U. of Michigan, author of Blowin the Blues Away: Performance and Meaning on the New York Jazz Scene (California)
- Andrew Jaffe, Director of the Jazz Program at Williams College, and author of Jazz Theory (W.C. Brown), and Jazz Harmony (Advance Music)
- Wolfram Knauer, Director of the Jazz-Institut Darmstadt, Europe's largest public jazz archive, and author or editor of numerous jazz studies
- Graham Lock, British author of Forces in Motion (Quartet Press), and Blutopia (Duke University Press), and co-editor of The Hearing Eye and Thriving on a Riff (Oxford University Press)
- Henry Martin, Professor of Music at Rutgers University, and Co-Editor of The Annual Review of Jazz Studies
- Ingrid Monson, Quincy Jones Professer of African American Music, Harvard University, author Freedom Sounds: Civil Rights Call Out to Jazz and Africa, (Oxford University Press)
- Brian Priestley, British author of Mingus: A Critical Biography (Quartet), John Coltrane (Apollo Press), and co-author of Jazz: The Essential Companion (Grafton)
- Walter van de Leur, Amsterdam College of the Arts, and author of Something to Live For: The Music of Billy Strayhorn (Oxford)
- Chris Washburne, Assistant Professor of Music, Columbia University, and author of Salsa in New York: a Musical Ethnography (Temple)
Jazz Perspectives is now a journal, too. Click here to view the Journal's site or view the flyer for more information.
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